Soft-shelled turtle, whose scientific name is soft-shelled turtle, also known as turtle fish and foot fish, whose scientific name is Chinese soft-shelled turtle, is a secondary aquatic reptile widely distributed in my country. It belongs to the class Reptilidae and the turtle family. It is produced all over the country, and the soft-shelled turtles in Dongting Lake area are of the best quality. The recipes unearthed from Madui, Changsha include turtle, which shows that the people of Hunan were cooking and eating turtle as early as the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.

Hanshou in the west of Dongting Lake is nationally known as the "Hometown of Soft-shell Turtles" in China. Its unique topography of "rising water forms a lake and falling water forms an island" makes it a typical water-passing lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Clams, fish, shrimps, and plankton are all there, which makes it easy for soft-shell turtles to hunt and is very suitable for soft-shell turtles to grow and reproduce.

tender meat

The turtles grown here have large skirts, fresh meat, no disease, and no pollution. Dongting Lake turtles are also famous all over the world for this. Soft-shell turtle, also known as turtle, foot fish and water fish, has the scientific name Chinese soft-shell turtle. It is a secondary aquatic reptile widely distributed in my country. Soft-shell turtle is rich in fat, various amino acids, vitamins and minerals needed by the human body. Its meat is tender and delicious, and is favored by consumers.

In particular, wild turtles have very high nutritional value and excellent quality. In 2012, during the implementation of the "Jiadang Modern Fishery Boutique Park" project, Jinhu County, Jiangsu Province made full use of the natural conditions of vast water sources, fresh water quality, and abundant bait sources to conduct imitation wild turtle breeding in ponds, and achieved relatively good results. The good social, ecological and economic benefits are welcomed by soft-shell turtle farmers.